Meetings begin on MD's climate plan

2009 law calls for 25 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020

May 08, 2012|Tim Wheeler

Maryland environmental officials are staging a series of public meetings, beginning today, to get public input on the state's plan to reduce climate-altering pollution.

The General Assembly passed in 2009 an O'Malley-sponsored bill committing Maryland to reducing the state's greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020. Maryland is among the states most vulnerable to climate change, with the nation's fourth longest tidal coastline exposed to rising sea level.

The state Department of the Environment recently unveiled a plan for curtailing greenhouse gas emissions, which projects reaching the goal largely with regulations and programs already on the books. For details, go here.

MDE is holding five public meetings around the state over the next month, with the first today. They are: